Design and rationale of a Prospective, Observational European Multicenter study on the efficacy of acute surgical decompression after traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: the SCI-POEM study

Spinal Cord, 05/11/2012van Middendorp JJ et al.

In order to minimize bias and reduce the impact of confounders, special attention is paid to key methodological principles in this study protocol. A significant difference in safety and/or efficacy endpoints will provide meaningful information to clinicians, as this would confirm the hypothesis that rapid referral to and treatment in specialized centers result in important improvements in traumatic spinal cord injury (tSCI) patients.

Methods

The SCI-POEM study is a Prospective, Observational European Multicenter comparative cohort study.